Tempest Manned Unmanned Fighter Concept

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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Britain will invest 2 billion pounds to 2025 to develop a fighter jet called Tempest that could be used with pilots or as a drone, its defence minister said on Monday, unveiling a life-sized model of the new stealthy warplane.

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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Britain will invest 2 billion pounds to 2025 to develop a fighter jet called Tempest that could be used with pilots or as a drone, its defence minister said on Monday, unveiling a life-sized model of the new stealthy warplane.

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Has a resemblance of Replica in it too, I hear form follows function, does that mean we have reached the current pinnacle of stealth design? It doesn’t seem to have any 9g plus alternative power plant type speculative (see secret tinfoil hattery) additions.

If we were then to apply that to 6th gen, it seems that perhaps full autonomy is not really achievable in a 6th gen timeline (despite the claims since 4th gen it will be the ‘last’ manned vehicle..ha) and perhaps the best we can expect of 6th gen is RPAS from a nearby asset or some kind?

Wonder what makes it different from F-35 which I assume has some kind of redundancy to retrofit unmanned?

Has anyone defined 6th Generation yet? Suppose it could still have some kind of self healing heat absorption material and plasma technology to reduce drag plus those buypass engines to fly sustained and fuel efficient Mach 3?

Be interesting if 6th Gen is a mixture of old (faster higher the better), stealth, EW and is it called network centric, the ability to process data.

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Old-Salt

Why have an aircraft that can be manned or unmanned? Surely, in the unmanned configuration it is carrying a shedload of weight that it doesn't need, or they take out the manned infrastructure (bang seat, controls, instruments, cup-holders ... ) and perhaps put in extra instrumentation, etc.

Doesn't make sense to me, but then, as usual, I don't know what I'm talking about.

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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Britain will invest 2 billion pounds to 2025 to develop a fighter jet called Tempest that could be used with pilots or as a drone, its defence minister said on Monday, unveiling a life-sized model of the new stealthy warplane.

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Has a resemblance of Replica in it too, I hear form follows function, does that mean we have reached the current pinnacle of stealth design? It doesn’t seem to have any 9g plus alternative power plant type speculative (see secret tinfoil hattery) additions.

If we were then to apply that to 6th gen, it seems that perhaps full autonomy is not really achievable in a 6th gen timeline (despite the claims since 4th gen it will be the ‘last’ manned vehicle..ha) and perhaps the best we can expect of 6th gen is RPAS from a nearby asset or some kind?

Wonder what makes it different from F-35 which I assume has some kind of redundancy to retrofit unmanned?

Has anyone defined 6th Generation yet? Suppose it could still have some kind of self healing heat absorption material and plasma technology to reduce drag plus those buypass engines to fly sustained and fuel efficient Mach 3?

Be interesting if 6th Gen is a mixture of old (faster higher the better), stealth, EW and is it called network centric, the ability to process data.

Most significant advances in current 6th Gen programmes seem to be engines, DE weapons, and cyber resistance/attack other factors such as stealth, endurance, and data networking seem to be evolutionary.

With engines RR would likely be building on the work they did for ADVENT variable cycle engines for the US in the last decade.

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Drones flown from a fixed location, what happens if someone launches a pre-emptive attack on the naafi holding these pilots OR, do succeed in jamming the unjammable (ECM, ECCM the eternal battle), but keep that little secret to themselves, until the day when all our planes turn tail, or land at enemy airbases.

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Most significant advances in current 6th Gen programmes seem to be engines, DE weapons, and cyber resistance/attack other factors such as stealth, endurance, and data networking seem to be evolutionary.

With engines RR would likely be building on the work they did for ADVENT variable cycle engines for the US in the last decade.

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Drones flown from a fixed location, what happens if someone launches a pre-emptive attack on the naafi holding these pilots OR, do succeed in jamming the unjammable (ECM, ECCM the eternal battle), but keep that little secret to themselves, until the day when all our planes turn tail, or land at enemy airbases.

I think it’s more to do with the speed of the decision not whether it’s made from the cockpit. Ie. Bandwidth.

I’m sure there is the technology to have a 4K video with pretty much unlimited movement fused with sensors to make the cockpit pretty much invisible linked to Virtual Reality headset, certainly in the next 10 years the headsets will match available cameras, but that amount of data cannot be transferred instantly to anywhere in the world.

What peaked my interest is that in my opinion, this optionally manned means that to those in the know, this level of data transfer is not envisaged in any credible source to allow the decision to be remotely piloted let alone the ability of AI, despite what those propeller heads know about quantum computing and other bleeding edge technology.